starring Jason Robards
Britt Ekland , Norman Wisdom and Bert Lahr with Forrest Tucker , Harry Andrews
Joseph Wiseman , Denholm Elliott Elliott Gould , Jack Burns New York, 1925, and on the lower
East Side burlesque in general, and Minsky's Burlesque in particular, are under constant fire from the Society for the Suppression of Vice and from the cops.
So when stage-struck Rachel Schpitendavel , running away from her Amish home in Pennsylvania, arrives at Minsky's announcing that she dances scenes from the Bible, the management sees a chance to prove that their show is just good wholesome entertainment - and that's how striptease was born!
Screenplay by ARNOLD SCHULMAN
SIDNEY MICHAELS and NORMAN LEAR
Based on the book by ROWLAND BARBER Produced by NORMAN LEAR
Directed by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Films: page 14